Highlighting the obtuse, the slanted and sometimes just plain ignorant writings found in The Gray Lady

We just finished watching the October 24th 2016 evening broadcast of the PBS Newshour. We were aghast at their slanted coverage against American Sioux Tribes protesting the building of oil pipelines across tribal lands and – most importantly – the planned pipeline under protected waterways that supply vital drinking water to the tribes.

The reporter practically pushed the cause of oil companies and their arguments. No where was there any interview from any Tribal representative. No where did it mention that Bakken oil sludge is the dirtiest, most costliest to process in the world.

Instead, PBS sounded like an 19th Century “Who are these injuns and we can do what we want on their land!” kind of story.

It is sovereign land. When will the United States finally accept the law that granted Native Americans the right to rule over their own land?

To underscore Public Broadcasting’s disgraceful lack of respect for Native Americans and their issues, after a quick dismissal of this massive tribal conflict, PBS spent the next 10 minutes on one of their more favored subjects, Syria, where they managed to ingterview a Syrian about the war for a good 10 minutes.

We are left to assume that the supposed Liberals at PBS care not for the very important issues going on in their back yards with Native Americans.

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When you want to belittle a cause, simply silence the voices of the cause. That is what Judy Woodruff – news editor – and PBS chose to do in this very important sovereign issue on Native American rights. (Note: First Nations is the term used in Canada while in the US Native American is still commonly used. Aboriginal or Indiginous peoples are also generalized terms used.)

It’s important to realize that Warren Buffet is a large advertiser with PBS. Warren Buffet has directly invested $Billions in the oil pipeline in stock buys in pipeline companies and has also increased his $Billions already invested in oil refinery corporation Phillips 66.

A couple months ago a BNSF derailment and subsequent explosion caused massive damage out West – it was covered by all the major news services. PBS made no mention of this major environmental disaster.

I remember this broadcast after watching Democracy Now! and being enraged.
Whenever I watch PBS New Hour but still mutter ‘please retire Judy’ under my breath every time she shows her faux compassion and fails to cover any people who are guilty of white collar crimes.
It’s all about how Russia hacked the DNC but never about the problems found within the emails (like how Trump was elevated by the news media with collusion with the Clinton campaign and the DNC) nor about the election fraud perpetrated by the GOP in the election, like in Detroit when 27 ballot counting machines failed to count 75,000 city votes, which was uncovered by the recount and investigative reporter Greg Palast She talks to Kris Kobach of Kansas (KKK), founder of the Cross Check system, that disenfranchised millions of voters, as if he was a normalized part of Washington who did nothing to hurt the election process.
Her reporting is biased to the needs of Washington parties and the corporations that fund her.
I call the News Hour the US State Media outlet.